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Entry #1478

Hi readers. I have a message for you so important it had to be delivered by the Royal Navy. Click here to receive it.

Wake Up: A guide to living your life consciously.

Here’s a bunch of images of people wearing an octopus on their heads.

Reserve a spot in heaven. They even offer a discount for parties of five or more.

Timewaster of the Week: Save Fred the bunny. I lost the patient.

Have a safe New Year's eve. The boy and I picked up The Simpson's season nine and ten yesterday so we could do our annual Simpson's marathon again this year. Which means I'll miss the New Year's eve Three Stooges marathon on channel 38 Boston once again. But hey, whatever the kid wants, right? Take the Stooges' sports quiz and get 2 Biomes points if you tie or beat my score (honor system). I got 13 out of 15 (it's really sad that I knew these answers).

Entry #1477

This week's water tower is found in Jackson, MS.

I'm getting bored with Sunday water towers, so I'm looking for some suggestions on a random useless weekly theme. So far we've done TypoGenerators and Oolong the bunny. The winning suggestion receives 5 Biomes points.
 

So, you think the ice is thick enough to safely walk on in Nanavut?

A guide to Evel Knievel’s injuries. In 16 years of performing he broke 36 bones. And his retirement wasn’t much better.

Over a ten-year period a “haunted” house in China has scared four consecutive owners away, causing the price of the five story building to plummet. A couple of skeptics snatched the place up for $6,500 and discovered that the source of all the spooky sounds came from a family of large catfish living in the building’s sewer. Now debunked, they turned over the haunted house for a cool $126,500 profit.

Entry #1476

I forgot to mention that The Boy gave me my favorite Christmas present of the year. It’s a squid whisk and you can buy one here.

This week's Marine Life Series essay on Daily Kos is called "Bivalve Dendrochronology".

Watch a trailer for the new live-action Speed Racer movie. I loved this cartoon as a kid, but this looks like it could be a bit lame. Although it is by the Wachowski brothers, which means there's a pretty good chance it will exceed expectations.

Why on earth would anyone want to stick a lit candle in their ear, and pay for it? What’s wrong with a q-tip?

Here's a video of the coolest bird on this planet.

Entry #1475: Meat

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Cool Site of the Week: Mystery Meat Macrophotography.

Here's a briefcase full of meat.

Hats made out of meat.

Know your lunch meats.

Enjoy a low cholesterol can of pork brains in milk gravy.

Was your meat smarter than your pet?

Lobster flavored ice cream, with real chunks of lobster meat bought from the local lobster pound. I don't think there is such a thing as a "lobster pound".

I stand corrected.

The Meat Club is a blog all about meat.

A pictorial guide to sausages.

Entry #1474

Trivia (7 Biomes points): Name this animal.

Go here if you think you might be suffering from adultitis.

Bacon eating contest.

Pi does not equal 3.14.... because the bible tells me so.

Many Americans are too fat to commit suicide.

Read “The Next War”, an op-ed by Wesley Clark.

Entry #1473

Stuff You Should Know: How Kwanzaa Works.

Yesterday someone greeted me with the words Mele Kalikimaka. I had to look it up when I got home.

Take this political test on morals and see where you stand compared to the 30,000 other people who took it. My score: -3, .05.

Play! Boomshine. I can’t get past level twelve.

Fifteen blog design decisions that annoy readers. I have to agree with most of these. Many of them drive me nuts and I’ll never visit the offending site again.

The top ten big stories the US news media missed in the past year.

Normally I can’t stand anything that Adam Sandler does. But I do like this live version of his Hanukah Song. (via Debsweb)

Entry #1472: Merry Xmas

(Thanks Maru, and merry christmas)

Ten weird christmas trees.

I’ve never heard the entire song about Suess’ Mr. Grinch. Here it is in music video style with clips from the show.

Tacky Christmas yards.

Sing along with “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”.

Try out the holiday-o-matic. I know, pretty stupid. But for each one you email out they will make a donation to Rotary First Harvest.

Old Soviet christmas cards.

Entry #1471

Bad Nativities.

The ten worst toys of 2007.

Consult the Christmas Ornament Wizard to determine how many ornaments you should put on your tree. Just enter the dimensions of the tree you killed and voila!

There doesn’t seem to be much point to camouflaged christmas tree ornaments.

Two hot girls in the shower discuss reindeer. Pretty funny (and safe for work).

Entry #1470

This week's christmasy water tower is found somewhere in Tennessee.

Buy your very own Hillary nutcracker here.

Japan is considering using used chopsticks as a biofuel, which sounds crazy until you realize the country disposes of 90,000 tons of the little wooden sticks every year.

The twelve days of Kitschmas.

  The Biomes Blog's 2005 Christmas post had a lot of links and dogs dressed up for the holidays.

Today’s slide show is of a guy rescuing a puppy buried in mud.

Entry #1469: Winter Solstice

This week's Marine Life Series on Daily Kos is about the life cycle of the American eel. It's a repost from July, 2006, but I'll have new stuff going up each week after the New Year.

Today is December 22nd, so Happy Cephalopodmas!

Certifiable nutcase, religious extremist, and presidential wannabe Mike Hukabee thinks that 1 out of 56 equals “most”.

Cool Site of the Week: Julies magic light show.

Oh, this rant by Bob Cesca is good. Damn good.

Watch the trailer for the new documentary Sir, No Sir! I suggest viewing the twelve minute extended version.

The winter solstice occured this morning.

Entry #1468

This is supposed to be a mostly no-gift Christmas here in the Hall clan because of the BushCo ravaged economy. But I’m lusting over this fake jellyfish aquarium. Watch the video.

Wrap your holiday gifts in boxes provided by The Onion. Like this peaceful progression smoke alarm. Yes, you really can buy these.

Thirty brilliantly timed sports photos.

This is insane. First they put the fear of brown people into the hearts of the knuckledraggers to get them to vote for incompetent republicans. Now it’s the fear of nature’s armageddon to get these same morons to buy a hummer. Watch the ad.

It's good to be back.

Entry #1467: Hi

Didja miss me?

Entry #1466

Wow, I am so friggin tired. I've had a long, boring, stressful, annoying, strenuous day. But I won't get into that, we're here to have fun. So have some fun, I'm going to bed.

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Entry #1465

Good lord, that number is high.

Anyway, sorry once again for the late posting, but TypePad won't let me post date for some reason. Anyways, most of you probably don't read this blog until around this time anyway, so no big deal.

For all of you who don't know the drill, I'm not a very good link person, that's why if you visit my blog (shameless plug) you won't find nearly as many links as you do here. So that's how I write here, you guys need a little break from the usual every once in a while.

So, with that said, let us begin the second day of me as the guest blogger.

For you Batman fans out there, there's a new trailer out for The Dark Knight. Take a look here. It looks really great, and The Joker is gonna' give me nightmares.

Well, that's all I have today. I'm tired. Good night.

Entry #1464

Hello all, it's the boy. I'm taking over as the emergency backup blogger while my dad is in the hospital. He's going to be fine, and he should be back very soon, but let's all wish him the best of luck anyway. Anyway,sorry for getting this up so late, I totally forgot to publish the entry today.

So, since this was very unexpected, I don't have much material for you guys today. So I'll present y'all with a LOLcat.

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Better stuff tomorrow, I promise.